Change cursor to hand when mouse goes over a row in table

You can do this with CSS actually.

.sortable tr {
    cursor: pointer;
}

I've searched bootstrap styles a bit and found this:

[role=button]{cursor:pointer}

So I assume you can get what you want with:

<span role="button">hi</span>

The easiest way I've found is to add

style="cursor: pointer;"

to your tags.

Add cursor: pointer to your css.

I added this to my style.css to manage cursor options:

.cursor-pointer{cursor: pointer;}
.cursor-croshair{cursor: crosshair;}
.cursor-eresize{cursor: e-resize;}
.cursor-move{cursor: move;}

Use the style cursor: pointer; in the CSS for the element you want the cursor to change on.

In your case, you would use (in your .css file):

.sortable {
    cursor: pointer;
}

For compatibility with IE < 6 use this style in that order:

.sortable:hover {
    cursor: pointer;
    cursor: hand;
}

But remember that IE < 7 supports :hover pseudoclass only with <a> element.

Use the CSS cursor property like so:

<table class="sortable">
  <tr>
    <th class="tname">Name</th><th class="tage">Age</th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="cursor: pointer;"><td class="tname">Jennifer</td><td class="tage">24</td></tr>
  <tr><td class="tname">Kate</td><td class="tage">36</td></tr>
  <tr><td class="tname">David</td><td class="tage">25</td></tr>
  <tr><td class="tname">Mark</td><td class="tage">40</td></tr>
</table>

Of course you should put the style into your CSS file and apply it to the class.

Example with styles inline:

Using css

table tr:hover{cursor:pointer;} /* For all tables*/
table.sortable tr:hover{cursor:pointer;} /* only for this one*/

for just a standard the above solutions work, but if you are using datatables, you have to override the default datatatables.css settings and add the following code to custom css, In the code below row-select is the class that I added on datatables as shown in the html.

table.row-select.dataTable tbody td
{
cursor: pointer;    
}

And you html will look as below:

<table datatable="" dt-options="dtOptions1" dt-columns="dtColumns1" class="table table-striped table-bordered table-hover row-select"  id="datatable"></table>